26 ASHLEY When I got home from work, I spent the entire night in the backyard with Lucas, talking and laughing, only to eventually fall asleep on the hammock. Luckily, I’d woken up in time to get ready for work. Lucas then decided to take the day off and cut my grass, since I had a ton of it. It was going to take hours to do. I’d told him there was a guy I hired to cut it every two weeks, but Lucas wanted to do it himself, and I wasn’t going to complain. It saved me a couple hundred dollars. I’d just finished up with my last patient before lunch and my eyelids were so heavy I didn’t think they could stay open a moment longer. Shutting my office door, I laid down on the couch to rest my eyes. My parents had asked if I wanted to go out to lunch with them, but I’d rather sleep than eat. I

